Can Italy leave the Belt and Road Initiative without a backlash?

How China responds to Italy’s exit from the BRI may influence other members who are contemplating a similar move.

European Union debt financing: leeway and barriers from a legal perspective

The paper investigates the legal feasibility of the EU borrowing on the capital market to finance European public goods.

How can strong implementation tools enhance climate and energy governance?

The State of the European Union speech must address the return of economic policy trade-offs

The European Commission president should set out the need for a new EU business model founded on the supply of genuine European public goods.

Technology adoption dashboard

A new governance framework to safeguard the European Green Deal

This policy brief sets out policy proposals to enhance governance in order to safeguard EU decarbonisation.

The Digital Markets Act is about enabling rights, not obliging changes in market conditions

Compliance with the DMA will be about ensuring that users are empowered with rights to challenge gatekeepers

Competition with politicisation is not competition, it’s harmful protectionism

The European Union should reaffirm the principle that undue interference in competition enforcement is protectionism that has negative effects.

Making sense of the European Commission’s fiscal governance reform plan

This Policy Brief offers proposals to enhance institutional self-commitment to implementation, with reputational consequences for non-implementation.